NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Tulane athletic director Troy Dannen took calls from three bowl game representatives this week. He anticipates a near-capacity crowd at 30,000-seat, on-campus Yulman Stadium when Memphis visits the 25th-ranked Green Wave on Saturday. That's a stark change from one year ago, when Tulane was laboring through a 2-10 season in which seemingly everything went wrong.
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